A non-profit is helping nurses and other health-care workers in the Lethbridge area while passing the time during the COVID-19 pandemic with a fun hobby: sewing.
Cora Walkey is the co-founder of the Stitch It Forward Society of Lethbridge. She started the organization about a year ago with her mother after her father had open-heart surgery. “The nurses gave him this heart pillow to help when he stood up so it didn’t hurt so much,” Walkey said.
She was told the pillows were made entirely by volunteers and that the hospital would run out very quickly. “We started sewing these heart pillows for the Foothills hospital and it grew,” she said. “Just last week we took three huge garbage bags full of heart pillows to Foothills.” Now with around 40